Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb.
Summary
A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth.
